About Lobito ClearPath

The Lobito Corridor is one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s most strategically significant trade routes — a rail and road artery stretching from the port city of Lobito on Angola’s Atlantic coast, through the mining heartland of the Democratic Republic of Congo. When operational at full capacity, the corridor provides landlocked DRC with its most direct export route to global markets, slashing freight times and costs for copper, cobalt, and other critical minerals.

Angola’s civil war (1975–2002) left one of the densest mine contamination problems in the world. Decades of conflict seeded millions of landmines and unexploded ordnance across the country, including along and adjacent to the Lobito Corridor route. This contamination is not a historical footnote — it actively kills and injures civilians, blocks agricultural land, and prevents the infrastructure investment the corridor urgently needs.

Clearing this contamination is a prerequisite for the corridor realising its economic potential. Road construction, rail rehabilitation, utility installation, and community resettlement all require certified clearance before work can safely proceed.

Lobito ClearPath is a professional demining contractor providing end-to-end mine action services: technical survey and hazard mapping, manual and combined clearance operations, and post-clearance certification for government handover.

All operations are conducted in full compliance with International Mine Action Standards (IMAS) and the requirements of Angola’s national mine action authority, CNIDAH (Comissão Nacional Intersectorial de Desminagem e Assistência Humanitária). Our documentation and quality assurance processes are built to meet the evidentiary standards required for formal land release and infrastructure project sign-off.

As a commercial contractor — not an NGO — we operate with clear delivery milestones, service level agreements, professional indemnity and liability insurance, and the commercial discipline that government and infrastructure clients require when awarding contracts.

Every hectare of contaminated land that is cleared and certified is land returned to communities: farmland that feeds families, ground that can bear roads and rails, territory that can host the economic activity that Angola and DRC need. The Lobito Corridor represents a generational opportunity for the region — and mine clearance is what makes that opportunity real.